Papalo/Quilquiña/Papaloquelite  Papaloquelite is a fabulous ancient Mexican herb. The name comes from the word papalotl, Nahuatl for butterfly. Unusual, piquant, fresh green leaves have a...

Cucamelon - The Doll House Melon These tiny, 1" light-green fruits with darker mottling look like watermelons for a dollhouse. The flesh is white, crisp, and crunchy with a slight lemony tartness...

Epazote - The Magical Herb This annual Mexican herb has a pungent aroma, spear-shaped, deeply toothed leaves and green flowers. It is also known as Wormseed, American Wormseed, Mexican Tea or Herba...

Culantro - Perennial Coriander Also called long coriander or Mexican coriander in English and samat, cilantro habanero, cilantro ancho, cilantro cimarron, alcapate, or recao in Spanish, it is...

Grow Your Soil! - Harness the Power of the Soil Food Web to Create Your Best Garden Ever Every gardener knows that the key to a good garden is rich, fertile soil. But that’s only the beginning,...

100 Plants to Feed the Bees How can we – as home gardeners – help the bees? Gardeners are eager to save honey bees, bumblebees, native bees, and other pollinators, but too often we don’t know how or...

Feed the Bees Seed Collection – A Pollinator Paradise in Your Garden “Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with the spices from a million flowers...

Why Use Herbs? Throughout the ages, plants have served a multitude of uses for human survival. Ethnobotany – the study of plant lore and agricultural customs – has provided us with rich evidence of...